At John Lewis’ recent memorial service, President Obama called for the extinction of the filibuster, calling it a relic of the Jim Crow South. This raises several questions. First, what exactly is a ...
Times have changed. Now that Republicans have fallen out of power in Washington under the weight of their own failed agenda, they have started using the filibuster as a tool to obstruct almost ...
Washington — The Senate’s coming confirmation of Neil Gorsuch will improve the Supreme Court, and Democrats’ incontinent opposition to him will inadvertently improve the Senate — if Republicans are ...
Editor’s Note: Thomas M. Boyd, a former assistant attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, is a partner in the Washington office of DLA Piper, LLP. The opinions expressed in this ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives to the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., Dec. 31, 2012. The Senate filibuster has been used sparingly throughout most of U.S. history. But several ...
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s threat Tuesday to unleash never-before-seen “chaos” on the Senate if Democrats take aim at the legislative filibuster was viewed by progressives as a strong signal ...
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company. How did the United States Senate get to this? Rather than being democracy’s foremost “deliberative” body, it has become the most ...
The original purpose of the filibuster was to ensure no senator ever suffered the indignity of having a speech cut short. The House of Representatives in its earliest years similarly permitted ...
In “The Filibuster Made the Civil Rights Act Possible” (op-ed, April 12), David Hoppe views the history through the wrong end of the telescope. Far from demonstrating the workings of a great ...
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